Today in Black History: Playwright, poet and activist Amiri Baraka, birth name LeRoi Jones, was born in 1934 in Newark, New Jersey.
The New York Times
National
EDITORIAL: At the Boiling Point With Israel
As Waters Recede, Haiti Staggers Under the Toll
Girding to Retake Mosul, Obama Faces Bush’s Deadly Pitfall
Corzine May Avoid Trial With $5 Million Settlement
Obama Administration Is Quietly Delaying Thousands of Deportation Cases
Army General Used Government Credit Card at Strip Clubs, Pentagon Says
Planned Parenthood Opens $30 Million Effort to Target Millennial Voters
Pro-Trump Group to Release Ads as Part of Major Swing State Effort
Army General Used Government Credit Card at Strip Clubs, Pentagon Says
Local
A Mother Is Shot Dead on a Playground, and a Sea of Witnesses Goes Silent
Train Was Traveling at Twice the Speed Limit Just Before Hoboken Crash
Witness Says Christie Aide Asked Her to Delete Email About Lane Closings
De Blasio Snubs New York Post Reporter and Calls Paper a ‘Right-Wing Rag’
The Christian Science Monitor
On display at California Senate debate: future of Democratic Party
Is it time to take a second look at stop-and-frisk? (+video)
Working-class, white men see incomes drop: How is that changing America?
The Star-Ledger
N.J. 23-cent gas tax hike: When you will actually pay more at the pump
Hackensack paying acquitted police chief $2.8M in compensation
7 reasons why Sweeney's not running for N.J. governor
Taj Mahal goes bust: Atlantic City casino to take final bets this weekend
The Washington Post
6 million citizens, including 1 in 13 African Americans, are blocked from voting because of felonies
Assistant principal charged with murder and feticide in death of pregnant school administrator
After 10 days of turmoil, Trump signals he will try to focus ahead of Sunday debate
President Obama just commuted the sentences of more than 100 people. Here are their names.
Parents and teachers rally for public education funding at schools across the country
How 10 mega-donors already helped pour a record $1.1 billion into super PACs
Five lessons about millennial voters from a Philadelphia focus group
Feinstein, Boxer back Kamala Harris for U.S. Senate seat
In Northern Virginia housing market, inventory and affordability issues persist
‘I don’t scare easily’: A 94-year-old judge’s refusal to bow to racism, death threats
The Cleveland Plain Dealer
President Obama commutes two local men's drug sentences in another mass clemency
Who's on the Ohio Medical Marijuana Advisory Committee? See the list.
Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted wants feds to butt out on running state elections
Rudy Giuliani says police reforms sought by Justice Department in Cleveland, elsewhere, are 'politicized'
The Detroit Free Press
Godbee's daughter fired after he quits on radio
$480K grant for Flint to be announced as Secretary of Education visits
Charter school settles labor complaint, will pay $106,000
Two Detroit men have sentences reduced by Obama
The Chicago Tribune
One gun's journey through Chicago — 42 bullets fired, two killed, five wounded
Charter school teachers vote to strike Oct. 19 if no deal reached
Citing beating of officer, Chicago's top cop says police are 'second-guessing themselves'
EDITORIALS: Final round of endorsements for the Illinois House
The Los Angeles Times
16-year-old boy killed by LAPD called 911 before the shooting and left a 'farewell note,' police say
Obama administration seeks to restore aid to Mexico despite its human rights record
Yes, Nat Turner had a wife. 'Birth of a Nation's Aja Naomi King on the challenge of telling her story
NBA star Derrick Rose's ex-girlfriend testifies in civil trial that he raped her
Philly.com
One pool of voters - people in the criminal justice system - gets attention
Cosby urges judge to toss sex-assault case, citing shaky evidence, health
Wolf names ex-Pa. Convention Center chief to gambling board
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